19 books to read from 2023

Check out these exciting books about Africa

We hope you enjoyed our Top Africa Stories of the Year 2023. Here are some of our favorite books from 2023:

Governing after War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding

By Shelley X. Liu

Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart

By Erin Accampo Hern

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

By Shakirah E. Hudani

Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique

By Eric Morier-Genoud

An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants

By Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

Ghana: A Political and Social History

By Jeffrey Ahlman

Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus

By Ben Radley

Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic

By Gino Vlavonou

Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders

By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics

By Kevin Ochieng Okoth

Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime

By Anne Wolf

Yearning and Refusal: An Ethnography of Female Fertility Management in Niamey, Niger

By Hadiza Moussa, Edited by Alice J. Kang, Barbara M. Cooper, Translated by Natalie Kammerer

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

By Barry Driscoll

Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

By Portia Roelofs

Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul

By Sarah El-Kazaz

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

By Noah L. Nathan

Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide

By Marie-Eve Desrosiers

Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

By Brenda Chalfin

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana

By Rachel Sigman